Average Quote by Bentley Little

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that's how…

— Eli Drake

“It perplexes me how many people write books where everyone comes from the same basic set of backgrounds—middle class, white, straight, etc. It's like…

— Scott Westerfeld

What's most important is to create an atmosphere that's real, providing characters the audience can root for. Once they become emotionally attached, that's the…

— David Nutter

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've…

— Rowan Atkinson

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just…

— Grace Paley

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters…

— Terry Pratchett

With each film, I get more and more involved and it's more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people's preconceived…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything…

— Daniel Clowes

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

— Anna Gunn

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

— J. Michael Straczynski